A GoFundMe account has raised more than $5,700 to help with funeral and medical expenses following a deadly crash that killed a San Clemente man and seriously injured his wife.
Eric Stein, of San Clemente, was killed Friday in Agoura Hills when the Ford Fusion he was driving was struck by a c

Four suspected gang members were arrested early Sunday morning after their vehicle crashed during a police pursuit. The incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. when a Anaheim police officer saw a car matching the description on an earlier police broadcast at Romneya Drive and State College Boulevard, Anaheim police Officer John Hasso said.

AGOURA HILLS – The coroner's office today identified a man killed in the Agoura Hills area in a crash with a Los Angeles County Fire Department vehicle as 36-year-old Eric Stein of San Clemente.
Stein was killed about 5 p.m. Friday when the Ford Fusion he was driving was struck by a camp crew carrier on Mulholland Highway near Kana

A clerk for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office who also works as a notary has been charged with helping a husband and wife steal more than $100,000 from an elderly woman.
Between 2008 and 2009, Thalia Lugo-Lainez, 37, and her husband Willmar Lainez, 44, are accused of forging Lugo-Lainez’s grandmother’s signat

Arson investigators with the Orange County Fire Authority are probing the cause of a balcony fire that broke out on the second floor of a Santa Ana apartment complex Saturday.
Firefighters responded to the 3100 block of South Main Street at 4:14 p.m., said Captain Steve Horner, OCFA spokesman.
A man on the first floor of the two-

A 22-year-old Stockton man was sentenced Friday to six years in state prison for using Facebook to recruit eight women to work for him as prostitutes.
Allen Kahrion Jackson pleaded guilty to six felony counts of pandering by procuring and two felony counts of pandering, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.
The

A former employee of a Santa Ana piano store was sentenced to 18 years in state prison Friday for embezzling up to $6.8 million over three-year period.
Russell Eugene Dunbar, 58, was found guilty last year of multiple felony counts of forgery, falsifying records and grand theft, with enhancements for aggravated white-collar crime over $5

A man suspected of killing a bicyclist in an early morning hit and run crash in Anaheim nearly two years ago is scheduled to face trial Monday, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said.
Filemon Reynaga, 49, of Sylmar, faces one felony count of hit and run causing death and a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter with

SANTA ANA – A judge on Friday denied a request to remove the Orange County District Attorney’s Office from a high-profile double murder case, as he publicly scolded a prosecutor and a defense attorney for taking part in “child’s play” by letting their mutual dislike interfere with their ability to argue the case.

ANAHEIM – A man suspected of theft attempted to evade police late Friday morning after undercover officers said they spotted him in a stolen car at a local hotel, but instead of getting away, he crashed into a center median, seriously injuring himself.
Anaheim police officers were “proactively enforcing” a neighborhood

A man suspected in several burglaries was arrested after he was spotted by an off-duty detective in Irvine.
On Thursdayabout 8:45 p.m., the detective saw 27-year-old Rory Scott Campbell walk into the locker room area of The Rinks skating facility on Barranca Parkway, according to Farrah Emami of the Irvine Police Department.
Camp

PLACENTIA – Police arrested a Placentia man Thursday suspected of pushing his aunt over the railing of a two-story apartment. Nelson Ramos, 27, of Placentia was booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of felony assault, said Placentia police Lt. Eric C. Point. He is being held on $25,000 bail. Around 12:10 p.m. Thursday

ANAHEIM – Three women were cruising down an Anaheim street Friday morning when the driver ran a red light and t-boned a woman driving a SUV, police investigators said. Anaheim police and fire officials responded to the collision shortly after 10:50 a.m. in the intersection near West Street and West Lincoln Avenue. A woman w

LA HABRA – A woman was critically injured after she was struck by a car Thursday night while crossing a major street, police said. La Habra police responded to reports of a crash around 9:30 p.m. on North Beach Boulevard, south of West La Habra Boulevard. A woman was crossing the street when a man driving a vehicle struck he

SANTA ANA – A man seen walking bloody and injured early Friday morning on a dark street said he was stabbed at a popular local restaurant, officials said. Santa Ana police found the stabbed man around 1:20 a.m. walking near the Center Justice Center courthouse on West Civic Center Drive and North Flower Street. He said he was